Product Manager – Digital Assets, Tokenization

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the product vision, roadmap, and success metrics for Alpaca’s tokenization platform, focusing on the Instant Tokenization Network (ITN) and related experiences for issuers, authorized participants, and brokers.

• Take full ownership of key initiatives from start to finish, including minting and redeeming processes, settlement and custody choices, and on-chain issuance for partners.

• Balance partner demands, regulatory limitations, engineering capabilities, and potential commercial benefits.

• Navigate build-vs-buy, partner-vs-direct, and onshore-vs-offshore trade-offs within the tokenization infrastructure.

• Conduct discovery sessions with issuers, authorized participants/market makers, broker-dealers, exchanges, custodians, and institutional clients.

• Manage the experience for authorized participants and issuers, covering documentation, sandbox equivalence, onboarding processes, exception management, and operational workflows.

• Convert partner requirements into prioritized product decisions and represent tokenization in discussions with business development and sales teams.

• Enhance broker capabilities through APIs, SDKs, documentation, and reference integrations.

• Collaborate with Legal and Compliance on frameworks for transfer agents, broker-dealers, custody, AML, and tokenized securities.

• Identify policy and competitive insights in tokenized securities and real-world assets, integrating them into the Digital Assets roadmap.

• Coordinate Engineering, Operations, Finance, Risk, Business Development, and leadership around a unified tokenization roadmap; escalate trade-offs and facilitate team progress.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, finance, or a related field.

• Over 6 years of experience in Product Management, Engineering, or startup environments, with senior-level responsibility in tokenization, digital assets, brokerage, exchanges, market infrastructure, or capital-markets technology.

• Proven track record of managing tokenized securities, real-world asset issuance, on-chain settlement, or similar regulated digital asset products at a production (or near-production institutional) scale.

• Strong grasp of equity/capital markets structure, including trading, custody, clearing/settlement, stock loan/borrow, and post-trade operations, and how these processes align with blockchain technology.

• Experience operating in a regulated setting alongside Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams.

• Demonstrated capability in conducting partner/customer discovery and translating insights into a prioritized roadmap.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for engaging with both engineering and executive audiences.

• Business acumen to evaluate ROI, partner needs, regulatory risks, technical feasibility, timelines, and budgetary constraints.

• Familiarity with an AI-driven product management workflow; utilizing AI tools as part of your daily tasks.

• Direct experience at a broker-dealer, exchange, transfer agent, custodian, market maker, or institutional digital asset/real-world asset platform is a plus.

• Experience with tokenized money market funds, tokenized securities, real-world asset issuance, or other regulated tokenized asset products is advantageous.

• Prior involvement in RFQ and atomic settlement processes is a bonus.

• A background that merges regulated financial product knowledge with crypto-native infrastructure is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options

• Health Benefits

• New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500

• Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card